I thought it would be fun for everyone to post any random facts they know (or something you Googled or whatever). It can be about anything as long as it's HP-appropriate. One player posts one fact. I'll start:

The Icelandic word for computer is tölva. It was coined in the '60s and is a combination of the words tala (to count) and völva (prophetess).

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas is said to be the longest word in the Finnish language and it means ''airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student.''

A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.

You burn more calories whilst sleeping than whilst watching TV.

The largest snowflake was in Keogh, MT in 1887. It was 15 inches wide! 

A mole can dig a 300-foot-long tunnel in one night.

Continents shift at about the same rate your fingernails grow. 

In the original version of Cinderella the slipper was made out of fur, not glass!

In the time between its discovery and its removal as a planet, Pluto didn't even finish one rotation around the sun.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!

More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.

Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres.

C3PO is the first character to speak in Star Wars.

There’s evidence that extinct Kumimanu biceae penguins once stood close to 6 feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds.

Hello Kitty made her debut in 1974.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Movie trailers were originally shown at the end of the film (hence "trailer"), but advertisers ran into the problem of people leaving before the trailers could run, so they were moved to the beginning.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado!

The highest point in the contiguous US (Mt Whitney) and the lowest point in the US (Death Valley) are less than 100 miles from each other.